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Issue 9.2 of Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures is now available. This issue includes: Editorial New DirectionsHeather Snell Special Section on Youngsters Introduction to Special Section, Youngsters: On the Cultures of Children and YouthNaomi Hamer, Stuart Poyntz Things to Do with Your Imaginary ChildSteven Bruhm Singing and Dancing “Their Bit” for the Nation: Canadian Children’s […]

It’s usually asserted that the Greeks of the Hellenistic period (after the death of Alexander the Great) exhibited a new interest in children and/or valued them more than they had before. It’s just not true. The University of Winnipeg New Directions in Classics presents its third speaker of 2018, Emeritus Professor of Classics Mark Golden, […]

Call for Chapter Proposals “Kids, Inc. to Andi Mack: The Disney Channel’s Tween Programming” is a proposed interdisciplinary, multi-contributer volume examining the nature, history, and legacy of The Disney Channel’s programming for tweens from 1984 to present. While The Walt Disney Company and its media texts (particularly its films) have been the subject of countless […]

Ancient Literature, Shahnameh “Epic of Kings” and the ChildThe First International Conference10 May 2018, Mashhad, IranOrganized by Dr. Khaleghi Mutlagh, world-renowned scholar and researcher of Shahnameh, professor at University of Hamburg, and managing director of Ferdowsi Foundation, and Professor Kanani, researcher and director of Ferdowsi Foundation The Shahnameh, also transliterated as Shahnama, is a long […]

International ConferenceSociocultural Dimensions of ChildhoodOctober 26-28, 2018, Sofia, BulgariaInstitute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museumhttps://childhoodconference2018.wordpress.com/ The researches in the field of childhood recently attracted the attention of a wide range of specialists in the sphere of history, ethnology, anthropology, sociology, psychology, philosophy, literature, legal studies, etc., resulting in the creation of an innovative […]

On March 7 from 11:30AM to 12:30PM, Paula Kelly, a student in the University of Winnipeg MA in Cultural Studies Program, will present a visual analysis of children’s images from the John Joseph Kelso archives at Library and Archives Canada as part of a Special Studies course supervised by Mavis Reimer. She draws upon Jacque […]

Special Issue of Social Sciences: “Childhood and Society”Guest Editor: Prof. Michael WynessDeadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2018 The “social” turn in childhood studies in the late 20th century has challenged a powerful orthodoxy within the social science, moving our understanding of childhood away from narrowed schooled and developmental models towards more diverse and globalised […]

On March 7, Six Seasons of the Asiniskow Ithiniwak researchers Doris Wolf and Kevin Brownlee will be presenting on the Six Seasons project at the Alternate Histories Symposium at the University of Manitoba (409 Tier Building). Both presentations are part of the “Shifting the Relationships between Indigenous Knowledge and Settler Discourses” panel from 10:15AM to […]

On February 21 from noon to 1PM, Six Seasons researcher, Mavis Reimer, will be presenting as part of the Winnipeg Public Library Skywalk Lecture Series in the Carol Shields Auditorium (2nd floor) at the Millennium Library, 251 Donald Street. Her presentation, “Moving Picture Books into the Future: Active Learning and Picture Book Apps,” will discuss […]